I saw Moonrise Kingdom and was very disappointed. Cheap and story of very little interest.

No one in this flik was noteworthy and some of the old farts were comparatively shabby performers. Save your money and avoid this silly, cheaply made and uninteresting story. The entire film reeks of an amatuer effort.

by Anonymous

reply 47

12/27/2012

It should be animated. After seeing Fantastic Mr. Fox I decided that all of his movies should be animated.

by Anonymous

reply 2

07/07/2012

Flik? Yeah, I'm going to take your opinion seriously.

by Anonymous

reply 3

07/07/2012

Why in the world would you expect anything good from Wes Anderson?

by Anonymous

reply 4

07/07/2012

I saw it recently, and I thought it was awesome. Mid-40's, white, graduate degreed professional. I guess it appeals to a certain demographic.

by Anonymous

reply 5

07/07/2012

The promos turned me off.

by Anonymous

reply 6

07/07/2012

Overly formal to the point of suffocating any incipient life out of it. And a whole lot of smug rich-east-coast-white-people air to it. Totally unrelatable and lacking human emotion.

by Anonymous

reply 7

07/07/2012

Hell, I've never even heard of it.

by Anonymous

reply 8

07/07/2012

Loved it. Totally charming.

by Anonymous

reply 9

07/07/2012

I absolutely loved it - charming, well directed and acted, real story telling where some characters are well developed and only parts of others are. i guess I align with R5's demographic.

by Anonymous

reply 10

07/07/2012

Wes Anderson could swallow a roll of Kodak film and shit out a movie that critics will automatically over praise. His biggest uhh hum "hit" was "The Royal Tenenbaums" that was a snoozefest. The rest no one bothered seeing.

by Anonymous

reply 11

07/07/2012

Wes Anderson perversely gets off on making his performers look stupid. That kid couldn't say his lines worth a damn and when he got struck by lightning and his face turned black he looked like a total idiot. If I had been Edward Norton I would have refused to wear those scoutmaster hot pants.

by Anonymous

reply 12

07/07/2012

What R11 said. I liked Anderson's first film best. I am not sure he's grown as a person or as a film-maker. But we only have a handful of good ones here, so we have to praise them regardless of the quality of their work.

by Anonymous

reply 13

07/07/2012

Movies like this one and the Royal Tennenbaums just try too fucking hard to be quirky. So tired of this whole category of flicks. I refuse to go see it.

by Anonymous

reply 14

07/07/2012

He needs to stick with animation. FANTASTIC MR FOX is by far his best film.

by Anonymous

reply 16

07/10/2012

"Bottle Rocket" and "Rushmore" are both classics, but I've found everything else of his since a little too cold, yet filled with forced whimsy.

This contains SPOILERS in case anyone wants to waste their money seeing this crummy film.

"Charming?" What in hell was "charming" about this movie?!

All the adults are unattractive losers who seem deeply depressed. Everyone in the film talks in a lifeless monotone, even the children. The two young "lovers" are intelligent but deeply emotionally disturbed (this is made clear in the movie) and are so lacking in affect and remorse as to appear sociopathic.

A "charming" movie where the girl heroine stabs another child in the back with a pair of scissors? Where's the "charm" in a little dog getting killed by an arrow shot through its neck? How "charming" is it to see two 12 year olds french-kissing and hearing that the tongue-kissing has made the boy "hard?"

The fans of this movie must have a few screws loose, because this is nothing but a crapfest. I've heard Wes Anderson's movies tend to be a very similar and that he has diehard fangurls who swoon over his edgy brilliance. They must all be batshit crazy.

by Anonymous

reply 22

07/11/2012

r21 your cool. r22 your just a sad person.

by Anonymous

reply 23

07/14/2012

People are so used to dumbed-down Hollywood formula drek that anything that isn't is attacked as boring and pretentious.

by Anonymous

reply 24

07/14/2012

Even Wes Anderson doesn't like Wes Anderson films. He believes his films reveal "the king has no clothes" minded film types.

by Anonymous

reply 26

07/15/2012

Only Tilda Swinton brought any life to it.

by Anonymous

reply 27

07/15/2012

One reviewer called his style "smug eccentricity".

by Anonymous

reply 28

07/16/2012

but I had fun with this movie!

by Anonymous

reply 29

07/17/2012

I have to agree that Moonrise Kingdom is a bore ...I mean, you've seen one moonrise, you've seen them all. Even though I haven't seen it, I can't recommend this film.

by Anonymous

reply 30

07/17/2012

It's one of those movies that I really don't know how I feel about. Part of me found it charming. Part of me found it cloying. All of me finds it inconsequential and I'd recommend that anyone going to see it not expect anything other than that in order to enjoy it (or not) for what it is.

by Anonymous

reply 31

07/17/2012

I liked the cat!

by Anonymous

reply 33

11/18/2012

Late to the party on this one, but I found it insufferably arch. Why can't Anderson let his actors talk to each other, rather than at each other? I understand what he's doing, but it left me feeling that there wasn't a genuine moment in the movie.

by Anonymous

reply 34

12/27/2012

OP, why are you surprised? Have you never seen a Wes Anderson film? This one was typical: stunted man-child-type-guys, some of whom are in fact children, share their love of irony with each other, while inappropriately sexual women tease them, and the camera moves very slowly from left to right, over and over again.

by Anonymous

reply 36

12/27/2012

He's like Woody Allen, if Woody Allen was a constipated WASP.

by Anonymous

reply 37

12/27/2012

And yet the Data Lounge can't get enough of Les Mis.

Wes Anderson's films aren't for everyone, but you watch one scene and you know you're watching a Wes Anderson film. Very, very few filmmakers have that kind of impact. Fashion magazines are still doing fashion spreads based on the Royal Tenenbaums based on the film's costumes - I can't think of too many other films that have that kind of longevity.

I also find his films to often be hilarious and moving, if uneven. They're not emotional in an over the top kind of way, but that's the sort of emotions that lots of people, like me, relate to. I've linked to an Anderson-centric tumblr that I found the other day.

by Anonymous

reply 38

12/27/2012

I agree, R24 and R38.

by Anonymous

reply 39

12/27/2012

this movie was turturous

by Anonymous

reply 40

12/27/2012

I found it a mildly amusing movie but nothing new oe terribly interesting and, again, a great deal less interesting than the myriad of great tv shows we have right now.

by Anonymous

reply 41

12/27/2012

My favorite live-action Wes Anderson film. I thought it was delightful, one of my favorites of the year.

by Anonymous

reply 42

12/27/2012

WA makes quiet films full of style and nuance. Not for everybody, but if it suits you, you'll be charmed for a few hours.

I love this film, it's like a macaron.

by Anonymous

reply 43

12/27/2012

I liked the kids with the exception of the two lead. She looks like Lana del Ray. Hated that the dog got killed. Overall I agree it's just way over the top in its twee-ness. Great Rhode Island locations though.

by Anonymous

reply 44

12/27/2012

Collectively, DataLounge doesn't like anything unless it has at least 30 years of nostolgia behind it.

by Anonymous

reply 45

12/27/2012

One of the most overrated movies of the year. Like a little kids movie.

by Anonymous

reply 46

12/27/2012

R7 nailed it. Only hipsters who are impressed by shiny cinematic distraction - the children talk like adults, and the color schemes are so retroactively innovative! - like this movie.

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